The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle. (Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin)
What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do. (Anthony Robbins)
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. (Will Rogers)
You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law. (John and Brand, Josh Falsey)
An old man loved is winter with flowers. (Edgar Z. Friedenberg)
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant)
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare (Blair Houghton)
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. (W. C. Fields)
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. (Marquis de Condorcet)
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. (Cicero)
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability. (Fred A. Manske, Jr.)
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. (Confucius)
The doors of wisdom are never shut. (Benjamin Franklin)
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. (Louis Kronenberger)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. (Henry David Thoreau)
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. (Kurt Lewin)
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to. (Harry S Truman)
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. (William Allen White)
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. (Booker T. Washington)
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. (Mother Theresa)